The Press., 1887-05-12

ascertaining that he was unable to walk,
 took his gun, and gave him direction4o re-
 main where he was, and to regard himself as a prisoner. They then paesed on, a private having first, at direction of an ofi- cer offered him a drink from. his oa,ateen.
 Their bearing toward him was in every
 way courteous and chivalric. He took oc- casion to withdraw himself into the bush es, and soon after the field was re-occu- pied by the "Yanlxs," and he was taken to the hospital. At this battle three were taken prisoners F. Fenton, Le- ander Duncan, and ID. s. Leonard, but
 these were paroled in time to return home with the regiment.
 We quote from the paper before us:
 After this, their destipation was Bsrry's Landing, where they protected the ship ment of immense quantities of cotton. On the Path of May they atvanced to Port Hudson, constituting part of 0en. 'BanlZs' advance. On the 25th they drove the enemy from the woods, and held them till the 27th. On this day they joined Gen.
 Weitzel and immediately commenced the assault on the works. In this affair they lost heavily, and numbers were wounded, among whom were four or five of co. ID. On the 11th of July they left camp, after participating in the glories of Port Hud- son, and, on arriving at Donaldsonyille, immediately took advance picket duty, and, on the 18th, were thrown to the front of the engagement This closed service as eventful as that of any regiment in the field for that length of time. On the 9th of August they left New Orleans for New York, after performing work of which they may well be proud. ' : The climate has debilitatcd many, who, we hope, under home treatment, may soon re- cover. An officer in the southwestern army, high in rank, told Col. Bissell, be- fore they left, that the 25th Conn. Reg, of all other nine months' men, had not been exceeded, in that department, for bravery and fidelity"
 There were no death losses to the com pany in later engagements. Geo. Brennan was wounded at Port Hudson. Also Tim othy Collins, while looking through q port-hole had one eye so injured by gravel thrown by shot as to eventually cause the loss of the sight Madison O. Willis, a soldier who never shirked duty, was left in a hospital at New Orleans, being too i'll to return with his comrades, and there died. Homer Lord also did not re- turn with the rest, having re-enlisted in another regiment.
 n mompeI Ol bue company, bpeok1nR or the opening of the action at Irish Bend, says that, composed as Company D was of men who had for years known each oth- CT intimately (with but perhaps a half dozen exceptional, the men were in close with each other. While passing to the front, after the firing began, the 25th was temporarily halted to permit the passage of other troops During this in- terval they sought the shelter of a ditch, of which there were many in the vicinity. From this covert they could see their comrades passing to the front, and the frequent sight of one falling dead or wounded was in no sense a stimulant to their oozing courage. When the word came to leave the covert and fall back to more sheltered place to form for further advance, there were some instances of "white feath- CT, '" but it was generally noted that this soon passed of, and that those showing such symptoms of fear were afterwards among the bravest in action, and almost invariably after true veterans in manner when in face of danger.